Kitty O. Locker was an Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she taught courses in workplace discourse and research methods. She has taught as Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and the University of Illinois at Urbana.

She received her BA from DePauw University and her MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana.

She has also written Business and Administrative Communication (7th ed., Mc-Graw-Hill/Irwin, 2005) and The Irwin Business Communication Handbook: Writing and Speaking in Business Classes (1993), and co-edited Conducting Research in Business Communication (1988).

Her consulting clients include URS Greiner, Abbott Laboratories, the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, AT&T, and the American Medical Association. She developed a complete writing improvement program for Joseph T. Ryerson, the nation’s largest steel materials service center.

In 1994–95, she served as President of the Association for Business Communication (ABC). From 1997 to 2000, she edited ABC’s Journal of Business Communication. She received ABC’s Outstanding Researcher Award in 1992 and ABC’s Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award in 1998.

Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek is an Associate Professor at Columbus State Community College and a Lecturer at The Ohio State University. He teaches courses in business communication, composition, creative writing, freshman experience, film and literature, globalization and culture, and public relations. He has also taught public relations at Ohio Dominican University.

Steve received an MA in English and BAs in journalism and English from Ohio State.

He has presented papers at conferences of the Association for Business Communication (ABC), College English Association of Ohio (CEAO), Conference on College Composition and Communication, and Northeast Modern Language Association. Steve has served on the ABC Two-Year College Committee and Diversity Committee and on the CEAO Executive Council. He also co-advises the Phi Theta Kappa Chapter at Columbus State and is a book reviewer for The Ohioana Quarterly and The Columbus Dispatch.

His consulting clients include Nationwide Insurance, The Ohio Historical Society, The Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums, The Ohio Museums Association, Red Capital Mortgage Group, United Energy Systems, The Thomas Moyer for Chief Justice of Ohio Campaign, and Van Meter and Associates. He also advises individual clients on job search and interviewing techniques.

Prior to joining Columbus State, Steve managed staff development and information for the Franklin County, Ohio, Commissioners. He has received an Award of Excellence from the National Association of County Information Officers, as well as awards for his writing projects.